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Scientists have argued that humans are unique because they learn from each other.
But new data has emerged suggesting that other animals, including bees, chimpanzees and crows, can generate cultural complexity through social learning.
This new view suggests that human culture is not uniquely cumulative, it is uniquely open-ended.
Eli Elster: Open -endedness reflects quantum leaps by which our cultures can evolve.
He says human minds produce unparalleled diversity in their cultures; yet it is also true that those cultures tend to express variations on a strict set of themes, such as music and marriage and religion.
Ironically, the source of our open endedness may illuminate what makes us so diverse, but also what makes them so often the same.
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